The said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.
Constitution Quotes
We’re going to protect and honor the Constitution, and I don’t have the authority to set it aside… If I had the authority to set it aside, this would be a dangerous government, and I wouldn’t respect it.
And lastly, let us provide in our Constitution for its revision at stated periods.
The theory that the Constitution is a written document is a legal fiction. The idea that it can be understood by a study of its language and the history of its past development is equally mythical. It is what the Government and the people who count in public affairs recognize and respect as such, what […]
Whenever the Constitution comes between me and the virtue of the white women of the South, I say to hell with the Constitution. (governor of SC -1911-1915), US Senator -1925-1932)
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man’s nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
